LIVE: Emergency services block main road amid reports of serious crash - latest updates

Emergency services have blocked a main road in Westhoughton this afternoon following reports of a serious crash.

Police and paramedics are in attendance on Wigan Road (A58), which is currently taped off between Jacks Lane and Hewlett Street. It is thought the incident occurred at around 3.30pm.

A bus was also pictured within the cordon, with officers from Greater Manchester Police still at the scene. Further details about the incident have not yet been confirmed.

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Wigan Road has now been reopened and emergency services have left the scene.

Police remain at the scene this afternoon with diversions in place.

Wigan Road is still blocked off in both directions following the earlier collision.

Posting on Facebook, Councillor David Chadwick for Westhoughton South wrote: "ACCIDENT WIGAN ROAD HART COMMON.

"Please be aware that the road is shut in both directions following an accident. I hope everyone involved is ok."

There are unconfirmed reports of a young child being hit by a vehicle on Wigan Road earlier this afternoon.

Greater Manchester Police are yet to confirm the details surrounding the incident, but there are a number of reports suggesting a young girl was involved.

Former councillor Anna-Marie Watters, who lives nearby, said she witnessed the scene moments after the collision and that a large vehicle had mounted the kerb and crashed into a fence on the opposite side of the road.

She has spent 25 years campaigning for road safety measures along Wigan Road and previously was successful in having the speed limit changed to 30mph.

"We saw it as we were coming down the road. We were on the left